Licking Holes by Eduardo de Souza
(sleeve notes)

De Souza himself describes his music as follows "I feel like a monkey amusing for peanuts of congratulation. Music is – well, at least mine is – pathetic." One could sense a deep existential theme along these lines, particularly related to the blues. "Suffering is a groovy ridicule that one day I woke in".

The style could not be more lax and intense, since Japanese aesthetics of unfinishedness mix with African roots and Tibetan irony meets Monty Python. The result is fresh yet contrived — even when Licking Holes starts to happen and mistakes are eternally celebrated, a flamboyance of "just dropped it" laughs at itself. Of course the music is not easy, it is almost painful to hear — but that's just how good blues is supposed to be.

"I never wanted to be a musician, but I always wanted to be great. Since I discovered exposing my genitalia wouldn't grant that, I played the guitar." Besides electric and acoustic he also plays bass, keyboards, flute, a Tibetan bell, sampling programming, telephone and makes the dirty lo-fi producing style – Banana, Warhol, anybody? – really work. Of course, his voice is another matter entirely, since his range, dynamics and vibrato are so unique you could even think twice about having been fooled by his scat and broken English. "I never learned how to read, I never learned how to write" sounds true said by this Black South American Netherlander Jew low-class lovely bum.

David Crowe

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== Nothing to Worry, it's Just Prostitute in the Bedroom and Liver Disease ==

"I was once recording some guitar and a prostitute came to consult with me. My mojo worked some oracular devices and people would consult me often. A good friend, actually a woman (I sang 'he' by mistake), had just died after a long coma caused by a strange liver disease. She was really fat, and I did some Vajrakilaya at her bed. So from this situation came this song, although I really haven't figured out the lyrics yet myself".

(Isso não interessa mesmo)
You mean look at myself in the mirror? Yeah.
I can do anything I wanna do. Yeah.
I can live my life the way I like to be, yeah.
But I'm happy the way I am.

I cut the cotton fields away
I sold my soul to the devil babe
But I play the guitar
And I taught some women about it, yeah.

Today someone dying in the hospital
With some strange disease in his liver
(Ela eu não acho tão simpática)
His color is blue, his color ir red, (Porque?) his color is yellow
Like the mighty Buddhas on the heavens above
(Demônio de Objema) Yes. YES. Like the mighty Buddhas on the heavens above

(Isso vai ser uma coisa lenta)
(Indolence)
I don't know
I don't know if I'm gonna put this record on the air
But I sure
like to sing it this way
Without Worrying about nothing!


== Red House ==
(Jimi Hendrix)

"It was with this song that I learned the blues. I don't like the studio version, but Hendrix blows my mind in all live versions that I've heard. I play this so often – the version recorded is not par with most performances –, that it irritates everybody around."

There's a red house over yonder babe
(That's) where my babe stays

There's a red house over yonder babe
(That's) where my babe stays

Oohh

I haven't seem my pretty babe in about
nine and wine and one half days

Wait a minute something is wrong
Lord the key won't unlock the door

Wait a minute something is wrong
Lord the key won't unlock the door

I have a bad feeling
That my babe don't live here no more.

(Now listen to the guitar)

I might as well go back over yonder
Go back over yonder across the hill.

I might as well go back over yonder
Go back over yonder across the hill.

If my babe don't love me no more
I know good well her sister will.


== Amanita ==
(Instrumental Vignette)

"This was my very first experiment in recording, just to check out how possible it was to do multitracking in the computer. I kept it since 97 around the hard drive, and its nostalgic koanic nature always smiled to me. I had to share this short moment of clarity with everybody."

== A Man Who Calls Himself a Man ==

"A simple improvisation on the oldest of blues gimmicks. Some mistakes, but still, I am not ashamed."

Mem men men new do tell
So many low I ever go
People mi'undertandin
I never know what is all about

Cause a man who call himself a man
Should never left a loan

My baby left me
But I don't care long
My baby left me
I didn't want take her long

Cause if you wait for someone babe
that's for a loan

Tomorrow study
I wake-shake my bone
Tomorrow steady
I'll shake my bone

Man gotta rattle and roll

Cause if it gonna hurt so
let it go

No one else shows
shows about the loan
No one else
shows about the loan

Cause if you know money baby
sing along, Hey!


== Slow Mind ==
(Instrumental)

"This was just after 'Amanita'. It makes me a little uncomfortable about not buying strings for my electric guitar and recording some more with it these last few years. I play acoustic because I'm lazy!"


== Gotta Help my Fellow Beings ==

"This one was happening rather well, but then, like in 'Antidope-ad', the phone rang. It was somebody asking about the dharma, so I added some OM MANI PADME HUNGs in the background."

Babe, I got to move
Have you babe?
I see the lord.

Babe.
Babe mean.

I got to sell the lord
I have to help my fellow beings
my fellow beings
my fellow beings

Alo?
Alo?

== Daniel Pellizzari Stylish Motherfucker ==

"I had a broken leg for a while and decided to produce some music with many overdubs. It came to my mind my friend Daniel Pellizzari would be a good name to drop, because he attracts so many people with his charisma and high cultured ways – not to mention Mojo. Monty thought I was mad at him, very funny. It was released a few years ago, causing some enthusiastic requests."

Daniel Pellizzari
through your countless lifetimes
have you ever reached the point
where the complete meaning of reality
was very close
right on the tip of your nose
Oh, sure you have
at least the pose

"Enquanto isso no Delta Sul de Saturno
Toda tribo de crianças vodu permanecia
em silêncio contemplando a intrincada dança dos anéis.
Não lembravam há quanto tempo estavam sentados ali,
não tinham memória além de 23 segundos no futuro.

Sem que nenhum sinal específico surgisse em meio a tribo
o garoto que seria um dia ia conhecido como IO
desviou o olhar dos anéis e afirmou
com a voz firme que não sabia possuir:
'Há realidade!
A realidade!
Ah realidade!'"

Don't forget the words of the Lord of the Dance
Don't forget the words of the Lord of the Dance

Stylish Motherfucker
Stylish Motherfucker
Stylish Motherfucker
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Pfui.

== Ah, I Like Right Now ==

"Yeah, I'm brave enough to put this annoying gay nonsense for everyone to see. Don't you admire me for that?"

Uh yeah
This should never mean for someone
People, life goes on

If the life goes on tonight I will show you
The waltzes of the world and we will make it a better place
Make a better place

I don't want to stay alone in the garden of the forking paths
I don't want to be consumed by tigers, mirrors, copulatios, abominable

No one will come, no one will ever come again, will ever come

Should the peace be long, should the peace be long

That's a mean crazy guitar

I should know where I'm going to, but it all works out, it all works out
even this weird note you just heard
it's just a manifestation of mind
Some things that happen while
while we are recording something and completely straight

That's what happens, we never know what can happen
But it starts to be repetitive, repetitive, repetitive,
repeating, repeating, repeating
Some things which I don't even know what about
repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating
something all over again, all over again
and never stop

I'm tired, I'm tired
Please mister guitar player...
O yeah, ok, that's nice
Ahh
I like right now


== So Long in Alingson Town ==

"Wrong beginning? That's the best! The rest is history. True history, I must add. I must have overstepped the wrong coloured dialect, but its all mean Downtown Guaíba Delta sandhabasa, brother."

Heeye
I've been away
Been away so long
Been away so long

My little world
I inherited some money

Everybody never knew
What is going around
Damn down and blue.

Everybody
Eeehhh I don't know

Cause if you roared
so many things
to my head alone.

Hey Hey
Hey Hey
I left to live
Some been awhile
I tell and take
so many louds

I never muled
so long in Alingson
Cause if you go mind a woman
should be gone

You better care
someone else

You better care
for someone else

cause if you wait
no one will show

If you don't mean anything at all
go find your way alone

Nowhere
Nowhere Neward has left alone
Eh eh, nowhere
nowhere has gold left alone.

Oh, if you mean so much to me baby
I will shake and howl

Beep beep beep beep beep Billy
Beep beep beep beep beep Billy
I Mack tell you all

No one knows what is all about

Cause if you mean so babe,
I'll be like a ghost.


== Antidope-ad ==
(Instrumental Solo)

"If you don't stop using drugs after this one, you need a hearing device. The phone rang and it was my late friend Eduardo Calderaro da Cruz announcing the birth of José da Cruz. The guitar was recorded over a little earphone put through a cone of a sheet of office paper. I didn't want to disturb the neighbors."

== The Crystal Ship ==
(The Doors)

"This is the only song I know how to play without rehearsal."

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
another flashing chance at bliss
another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright
and filled with pain
enclose me in your gentle rain
the time you ran was too insane
when we get back I'll drop you a line

Oh tell me where
your freedom lies
streets are fields that never die
deliver me from reasons why
you rather cry, I rather fly.

The crystal ship is being filled
a thousand girls, a thousand thrills
a million ways to spend your time
when we get back, I'll drop you a line



== Waste Song ==

"Nowhere is to be found a reason to keep this thing in my hard drive, much less to distribute it. Well, at least I didn't rap over it (but thought about it and got lazy, that's the truth)."

== Chandali ==
"A hymn in praise of the goddess."


== Horny and Well ==

"If I had patience, I would work out a blues step by step, write proper lyrics, make appropriate fitting and neat guitars. But it seems my laziness is not that bad, since square and deliberate blues just lacks soul, obviously."

Baby babe
I didn't know what it mean

Baby babe
I didn't know what it (mumble)

Baby babe
I had to stand my pretty woman

Ooh pretty baby
I haven't seem my pretty woman

I have never never seem a pretty woman
such as this, such a worry to me

Ooh pretty woman
pretty woman

I have to watch you jigle-jigle
pretty woman
pretty woman
I gotta see you pretty jigle-jigle

Cause if you wait for myself
you gonna get out of me.

I was once in Amsterdam
I didn't want to well-oh-well
I was once in Amsterdam
I didn't want to well-oh-well

Cause if you wait for my babe
she didn't want from someone else

Oh Baby, I need to know what else, what else
Oh pretty Baby, pretty baby,
I need to know what else, what else

I have a pretty lady
That didn't want from someone else


== Baby Mean So Low ==

"Sounds good and sad. Blues is a matter of being in contact with earth. The soil where we rot and where women trample my heart. No use in getting nervous."

Baby
I come
Please praise the lord
Please praise the lord above

But if you mean my pretty spirit
and no bay
Make to the time I go

I bed a way
I bed a way for someone new

I bed a way
Bed a way for someone new

But spent a spirit I'm going in
No, I do

I never come
I never come to the street at night

hell no

I never come
I never come to the street at night
For I have fear that some little babe
gonna use me so alone

Baby mean
Baby mean so cold

Baby mean
Baby mean so low

Cause I never said a word
that went back at my door

== Strobidibidiq Bro ==

"This was recorded out of boredom in the same period of 'Daniel Pellizzari Stylish Motherfucker'. The main influence of course is Phurbu Tsering, a Tibetan I met who spoke broken English similar to some formations here. It was quite prophetical actually."

Tava andando na rua
não pude deixar de perceber
nóis não tem mais ninguém
pra nos proteger

te cuida meu irmão
te cuida meu irmão
evoé

Eles me disseram
Mas eu não acreditei
Não tem mais nenhum ET pra nos defendê
Te cuida Grimitop, te cuida Sroboteq
Te cuida Somonec o Stomo Stromorobotoc

You know what your problem is?
Your problem is you don't know nothing at all
about nothing at all about nothing at all
Then you start talking about this shit
about this freaking thing rolling around your head
And you start making some music that nobody listen to, man

and so
it's probably full of shit
because there's nothing at all in it
you know? nothing at all

you don't know nada man,
what you saying, man
what you saying

Listen to your brother Strobidibidic, man
Your brother Strobidibidic knows everything about
the stuff, man

he's playing some music

now he's coming down to ir
now he's coming down, yeah

Alright alright now

Strobidibidic, you don't know nada, yeah
Strobidibidic, you don't know nada, yeah

Strobidibidic, you don't know nada, yeah
Strobidibidic, you don't know nada, yeah

So ladies and gentleman, human and aliens (he don't know nada)
now I will disclose to you the complete meaning (don't listen to him)
of everything about everything about everything
its just a simple combination of words that can transform
everything into pure gold

so listen very closely
Attentively
oH


== Fabinca 2 ==

"I could not put you outside this project. It means so much to me, and I though about doing a few songs, maybe a whole album. The effort here is the first, and I was a little shortcomed at the moment, being lazy to change the strings on the guitar, and without the G string. I did Ostrich guitar all the way, and producing took me 6 minutes."

My dear, I love you
you're so great
Dear, there's no problem that can't be solved.

== Born Under a Bad Sign ==
(Albert King)

"I never thought I would fall into music again. It is so unrewarding. But if I was going to play, I was going to play the absolute hymn of blues, the celebration of hopelessness. This is the only song I had to record over 3 times (this one took 11), and its contrived nature happened because I though I couldn't remain in concentration for 2 or 3 minutes. I forgot one stanza actually, but I'm still not on my own, so..."

I was born under a bad sign
been down since I've began to crawl
And if it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Never learned how to read,
never learned how to write
my whole life has been a damn old fight

I was born under a bad sign
been down since I've began to crawl
if it wasn't for bad luck
And if it wasn't for real bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all

Ah, oh yeah.

You know wine and women is all I crave
A big fat woman is going to carry me to my grave

I was born under a bad sign
been down since I've began to crawl
if it wasn't for bad luck
If it wasn't for real bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all


== Fabinca ==

"Ways of simplicity and formulaic terrain are my soul. I am happy with this easy listening effort where feeling is flowing as 10 cups being filled with sparkling wine."

My dear Fabinca
You should know I love you so

My dear Fabinca
You should know that I'll never forget
your kindness, your heart
your ways amongst the stars
your eyes
your mind
that I enjoy so much

My dear Fabinca
You should know Dharma

My dear Fabinca
Is it true that you understand?

I'll have your hand anytime.
I will make my life worthy of you


"All in all, these times have been great. Although the streets where I live have become a little noisy, I have been able to remain calm and not get involved. My grandmother passed away, I believe drugs are out of the way, philosophy really makes it all so easy and Fabinca has a good heart. Wow!" Eduardo de Souza – May, 2006

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